Corporate finance

Two academic experts weigh in on what’s happening with private credit and how concerned business leaders should be.

They’re often payroll in disguise. Here’s how boards can get a clearer picture of the real accounting.

How to sanity-check models, think probabilistically, and distinguish sound decisions from noisy outcomes.

New tools are enabling anyone to infer strategic insights from seemingly innocuous information.

A closer look at the evolving role of the CFO and how they’re increasingly looked to as drivers of growth.

What leaders need to understand about the asset and the network to right-size their company’s exposure.

It’s a leadership challenge, not a technological one.

The strategies of “stable outperformers” offer organizations an alternate path forward.

Public and private models have distinct vulnerabilities. Here’s what leaders can do to avoid them.

A collection of more than 1,000 failed products and businesses reveals the common forces that spell doom for new ventures.

An analysis of nearly 1,000 acquisition announcements showed that bellicose language projected recklessness, not strength.

Don’t just anticipate risk. Seize new opportunities.

Companies tend to manage capital projects as a single behemoth — which is why they often don’t go as planned.

The role has one of the shortest tenures of any in the C-Suite and is often blamed for below-target growth. But recent research shows firing the CRO can cause more problems than it solves.

The SEC has an opportunity to increase transparency, efficiency, and fairness in the U.S. labor market.

More than $1 trillion in loans will come due over the next two years. Here’s how companies can protect themselves.

New research on how to identify investments that produce delayed but real profits — not just those that produce short-term accounting profits.